The best chess player of his generation on the planet was two and a half minutes late, so he had six times less time than usual for his moves.
Comedic footage has gone viral on social media of a chess genius storming past a security post and racing across the hall to his table, while an uptight opponent restlessly counts down the seconds after completing the first move.
M. Carlsen, who the day before became the world champion in rapid chess for the fourth time in his career, did not even have time to change and broke the dress code by appearing in casual clothes not suitable for official competitions.
However, he behaved like an automaton at the chessboard: by the end of the match, time began to put pressure on the Belarusian grandmaster, who was already four years younger.
Subsequently, M. Carlsen won five more games and drew once, scoring 6.5 points out of 7 possible. In the general standings he is the leader on an equal footing with the American Hikaru Nakamura.
“It’s my fault. On the way to the venue I got stuck in a traffic jam that seemed to last forever. It was a bit of a shock. Sorry everyone, I also don’t like waiting for latecomers. This is a total scandal,” he said. said M. Carlsen, shaking his head with the ashes.
The Norwegian media report that the chess player was probably late because he had decided to go skiing in the vicinity of Almaty in the morning.
By the way, Russian grandmaster Janas Nepomniačis also ignored the dress code, just deliberately.
The 32-year-old former competitor of M. Carlsen in the fight for the laurels of the world chess champion appeared at the chessboard in a T-shirt with the inscription “What are you looking at, stupid?” in Spanish.
This phrase was uttered by the captain of the future champion of Argentina after the quarterfinals of the World Cup with the Netherlands Lionel Messi, in the area intended for communication with the media, after having dismissed the opposing striker Wouta Weghorst.
Ian Nepomniachtchi at the Blitz Championship in a T-shirt with Messi’s angry words after the match with the Netherlands pic.twitter.com/x9qegzJNWA
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